On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Sino-Dutch diplomatic relation, VCWI organized a one day seminar on 21 Sep 2012 on new perspectives in Sino-Dutch Cooperation. One of the themes of the seminar was Sino-Dutch cooperation opportunities in Energy & Resources, Water and Food, Space and ICT, Health and Nano Technologies. Paul Havinga gave an invited talk on possibilities offered by sensing technologies.

On 20 Sep 2012, Nirvana Meratnia gave an invited talk at Incas3. The talk was about energy efficient buildings and how activity recognition and learning mechanisms can help in reducing energy consumption at home environments while keeping user satisfaction at a reasonable level.

On 7 Sep 2012, in a ceremony organized by STW and NWO, winners of the STW valorisation grant received their grants from the minister of education Mr. Zijlstra. Bram Dil and Wouter van Kleunen, AIOs at PS, received a valorisation grant (phase 1) for their proposal entitled "Spatial-Based SALOC". The valorisation grant is an individual grant for researchers to develop innovative high-tech businesses based within an university or research institute developed knowledge.

Second review of the GENESI project took place on 11 July 2012 in Rome, Italy. After presenting scientific and technical achievements of the project, reviewers and the consortium partners paid a visit to the under construction Rome under ground metro station, which is used by the GENESI project as one of the test sites.